Thoughts on 6th days

A few years ago our preacher at church preached a sermon about your "6th days", meaning your Saturdays. We have 5 days to work and Sunday, our Sabbath to rest--but what about our "free" day, our 6th day? "What are you doing for God with your 6th day?" he asked.

And that question has stuck with me and come back to me time and again, because I know time goes by so quickly and life is so short. And I know that so often, I don't do anything productive or worthwhile on my 6th day. I rest and relax and do laundry and maybe, if I'm lucky, do something fun that I want to do. And every so often, I'll do a "service project" on a Saturday and serve someone and serve God, but in all honesty, that doesn't happen very often.

I believe in what he was saying. I think we need to very intentional about what we do with our time here on earth and that that is something we will be held accountable for and I think I waste entirely too much of it. But my problem is that by the time I get to the weekend, to my "free time", I am drained from the week. The thought of getting up early on Saturday to go and do something makes me sad because I know that is my one day to sleep in and then get caught up on things around the house, all the little things that I didn't get tp during the week.

But, I want to do better. I want to use my free time for more than just me. I don't want to use the excuse of "I'm tired" to stop me from doing something God is calling me to do, or to stop me from doing something that would benefit others. Because I know that's more important that the house getting cleaned or the errands on my to do list getting crossed off.

How do you find the balance? Do you just jump in to something, knowing that God will bless you in it? Do you work extra hard during the week so that you have the weekends off? Do you not work as hard during the week so that you have extra energy on the weekends to do something worthwhile with your 6th day? Do you just ease into it?

I've just been thinking about this lately, because as fun as this last weekend was, and as nice as it was to do nothing that we didn't want to do, we also did nothing for anyone else, nothing to help anyone or make their lives better. And I just wonder sometimes, if all of my 6th days look like that, or event he majority of them, what does God think about that?

Any thoughts? Suggestions? Experiences to share?